I see where people are coming from, but I believe that each PB game is different, and I don't agree with breaking agreements for the sake of it.
The situation I am talking about exclusively is Korea. Now Korea were forced into a long NAP by Whosit to avoid being completely crippled before island cities get off the ground.
NOW, with the soon to be revealed knowledge of Rome's forces being on the other side of the map, I believe that a Korea NAP-stab would both be the best and most profitable move to get back involved in the game. If they do not take this opportunity, can you think of another opportunity for them to get back in the game, given their weakened research?
Is this REALLY dishonourable? I would say that a key part of a PB game - is the politics of it, shifting alliances and diplomacy. Now surely nap-stabs are a part of the game, if they can be justified in the threads? Regardless of whether Korea's nap-stab succeeded or failed, are you telling me that people in this community would put a question mark against those players even if they could fully justify their actions as being more than a land-grab? I don't think that is fair.
To avoid being mis-interpreted, I am not and have never stated that I support nap-stabs based upon pure ambition and landgrabs with no proper justification. BUT, I do support justified nap-stabs which are a proper political tool in playing the game in my opinion. Korea's fits in in this respect.
My reading of gameplay is that if everyone just played 'honourably' and no agreements were ever broken, it would be pretty boring. Just look at this game, now there is a 3 way alliance of Jowy, Athlete and Whosit it seems very unlikely that they will be final three unless Spulla pull something HUGE out of the bag. Now to me, that seems pretty bad that we aren't out of the ancient age yet and it seems like the final 3 is well defined.
The situation I am talking about exclusively is Korea. Now Korea were forced into a long NAP by Whosit to avoid being completely crippled before island cities get off the ground.
NOW, with the soon to be revealed knowledge of Rome's forces being on the other side of the map, I believe that a Korea NAP-stab would both be the best and most profitable move to get back involved in the game. If they do not take this opportunity, can you think of another opportunity for them to get back in the game, given their weakened research?
Is this REALLY dishonourable? I would say that a key part of a PB game - is the politics of it, shifting alliances and diplomacy. Now surely nap-stabs are a part of the game, if they can be justified in the threads? Regardless of whether Korea's nap-stab succeeded or failed, are you telling me that people in this community would put a question mark against those players even if they could fully justify their actions as being more than a land-grab? I don't think that is fair.
To avoid being mis-interpreted, I am not and have never stated that I support nap-stabs based upon pure ambition and landgrabs with no proper justification. BUT, I do support justified nap-stabs which are a proper political tool in playing the game in my opinion. Korea's fits in in this respect.
My reading of gameplay is that if everyone just played 'honourably' and no agreements were ever broken, it would be pretty boring. Just look at this game, now there is a 3 way alliance of Jowy, Athlete and Whosit it seems very unlikely that they will be final three unless Spulla pull something HUGE out of the bag. Now to me, that seems pretty bad that we aren't out of the ancient age yet and it seems like the final 3 is well defined.
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